BRIDGEPORT -- A Rhode Island woman was charged Friday with driving drunk and causing the crash last year that left a local man paralyzed.

Police said Armanda Amyot, 31, had a blood/alcohol level of 0.295, more than three times the legal limit, when she crashed into a car driven by 26-year-old Apolinar Aguilar-Lavariega on Oct. 19.

Amyot, of Greenville, R.I., was charged Friday with driving under the influence, second-degree assault with a motor vehicle and failure to maintain insurance. She was released after posting $50,000 bond.

Police said Aguilar-Lavariega, of Wallace Street, had been parked in his car on Fairfield Avenue near Martin Terrace when his car was struck from behind by a car driven by Amyot.

When officers arrived at the scene, they found Amyot standing behind her car. They said she admitted she had been drinking.

Inside her car police said they found an empty bottle of Smirnoff vodka.

Aguilar-Lavariega was found lying on his back in his car, covered in blood.

He was taken to Bridgeport Hospital where police said he was suffering from a traumatic spinal cord injury. As a result, police said Aguilar-Lavariega is now paralyzed from the chest down.